THE long-standing issue of GAA club boundaries is set to reach a political forum with the Letterkenny Town Council to debate the matter at its monthly meeting on Monday night.
The Donegal News has learned that a motion from Fianna Fáil Councillor Tadgh Culbert will go before the meeting at the Public Services Centre.
By C.J.McGinley
A LEADING school principal has hit out at ‘savage’ education cutbacks that are ‘sinking the life opportunity’ for the most vulnerable pupils such as children with special needs, travellers and pupils from other countries.
By C.J.McGinley
OVER half of the garda stations in Donegal could face closure in the latest round of cuts, it emerged yesterday (Thursday).
SO FAR this year almost 500 vehicles have been seized by Gardai in the Letterkenny Garda Division alone, it has emerged.
By C.J.McGinley
THE Letterkenny-based brother of one of three Irish soldiers killed in controversial circumstances in the Lebanon twenty two years ago has welcomed an independent report stating their deaths ‘could and should have been avoided’.
A young trainee doctor is in a critical condition at Letterkenny General Hospital after an horrific single vehicle accident this morning (Tuesday).
By C.J.McGinley
THE 41 years-old American tourist who had been missings since Saturday in the Glencolmcille area has been found.
SIX tax defaulters in Donegal made settlements totalling just under €1 million with the Revenue Commissioners in the three month period from April to June this year.
The largest settlement in the county was made by a Killybegs launderette owner, William Cunningham of Bridge Street who made a settlement of €262,390. It resulted from an underdeclaration of Income Tax and VAT discovered in a Revenue Single Premium Insurance Products Case and an Offshore Assets Investigation Case.
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Members of the Burt community will come together later this week to discuss plans to establish a permanent memorial to infants who had not been baptised and were therefore buried in an unconsecrated plot outside the main cemetery. Over the years the local cemetery has been extended incorporating the plot within the present boundaries.
THE NCT car test in Donegal was criticised this week by Deputy Charlie McConalogue after its annual report revealed that just under half (48%) of the vehicles tested in the county failed.
A total of 30,782 tests were conducted in Donegal in 2010, with 16,028 passes (52%), although both Letterkenny and Carndonagh recorded below average pass rates.